January, 2013

I’ve had an issue with Debian stable for some time that doesn’t occur on other servers with newer kernels. I haven’t found the exact cause of the issue yet, however I have found a workaround that is good enough for my purposes.

One of my biggest gripes with Gnome Shell or Cinnamon is the lack of documentation and code completion while developing. I’ve been working on a basic way that I could create code competition for myself for some of the most common functionality.

Update: The applet is now only supported for cinnamon 1.8.x and 2.0.x (https://github.com/gfreeau/cinnamon-pomodoro). The old version is available here: https://github.com/gfreeau/cinnamon-pomodoro/tree/1.6 I’ve written a cinnamon applet for doing a pomodoro, it’s based off of an old version of https://github.com/codito/gnome-shell-pomodoro and works in cinnamon 1.6.x. I converted an old version as the newer versions use some code […]

I’m finalizing my new mint 14 setup and I ran into a strange issue with the mscorefonts package. I’ve never had a problem with this package before however I was unable to install the fonts using this package or the package would say it was completed but there were fonts missing.